colleen

Example Sentences

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Wilmington described O’Hara as “Hollywood’s ultimate fiery colleen, she has a classic chiseled Irish beauty and a thinly strapped temper that erupted smashingly into scathing tantrums or round-house rights.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2015

And the neighbours all pity the colleen so pretty,

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2015

The Hitch The inhabitants of a neighboring barren, windswept Irish island want parts in it, including the play’s misshapen title character and a sociopathic colleen named Slippy Helen.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2014

In the role of Ryan's daughter Rosy, Sarah Miles is as tremulously lovely a colleen as ever graced a Kerry hillside.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was young, sweet as only a real colleen can be, her Irish blue-violet eyes set in her lovely forehead, fringing which her glorious gold chestnut hair sparkled in the sun with the richest tints.

From The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by Gordon, J. M. (Joseph Maria)